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...otherwise modern home will remain video-game-console free. My children sometimes ask when we will get a game machine (the answer remains "Never"), but most of the time they're very busy reading, playing with friends or creating their own imaginary adventures out in the backyard...
...coordination skills. It's no surprise either. Running, jumping, climbing and spinning around in circles have always been an indispensible part of childhood. And until the past few decades, they were an integral part of U.S. children's lives--playing out on the street or in the park or backyard after school and on weekends, organizing pick-up games of soccer, tag or baseball, racing around the neighborhood or going off to camp all summer long, and, just for good measure, burning calories in gym classes from September through June...
...those are immigrant values as well. It may be an imagined past or an idealized vision of the immigrant present, but there was something about the earnestness of West Point that fit Pae snugly. "People think that because my dad's an artist, that means he's in the backyard smoking weed or something," he says. "It's not like that. My parents are conservative. They have a hard-work ethic. Very Korean values...
...Jazeera's coverage stirred business problems in the network's own backyard long before its executives decided to go West. For the past nine years in the Middle East, al-Jazeera has faced an unofficial boycott led by Saudi Arabia, whose government was stung by criticism on al-Jazeera of its rulers. The English channel is apt to employ the sort of guerrilla business tactics that the Arabic channel has used. Initially limited to advertising from Qatari companies, the Arabic channel gradually attracted international brands and boosted its revenues threefold by, among other things, making deals with parent companies rather...
Annual injuries from backyard trampolines have nearly doubled in the past decade, according to researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Nearly 75,000 kids now end up in emergency rooms each year because of such injuries, more than 2,000 of which are serious enough to require hospitalization...